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 - Create a summary of change highlights
 - Create a "breaking changes" section with any changes required
 - Deploy agents with the new image tag (if it makes sense to)
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+### Releasing packages to NPM
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+We use [changesets](https://github.com/changesets/changesets) to release to NPM. You can use the `release` script in `package.json` to publish.
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+For an alpha or beta version, follow the directions [here](https://github.com/changesets/changesets/blob/main/docs/prereleases.md).